Dr. Glen Richgels Dr. Derek Webb Bemidji State University

 Name  School  Grades you teach  Why are you here?

 Is motivation an issue in your classroom?  Is it math or is it across the curriculum?

 The NCTM has a section of their website dedicated to motivation in the mathematics classroom: d=16479

Motivational classroom activities Research and general strategies

Do you notice/perceive a difference in motivation?

 Don't do their homework.  Are brought to class by the police  The police wait for them outside the classroom  Put their head down and pretend to write to avoid class participation and responding in class  Miss class because of athletics  Miss class because of extra curriculars  Miss class because their 5th grandma died  Missed class because they were in a ditch  Left class because you called on them

 They weren't in class last time  Left their book in their car  Dog ate it  Left it at the relatives that they visited  Left it on the bus  Too busy with family schedule  Couldn't remember what we did in class

Survey technology:  iClicker  Computers/laptops/iPads/etc…

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Clickers Please answer the following to the best of your ability A.I am a female B.I am a male

Roll a 6-sided die once. What is P(roll a 4)? A.1/2 B.1/4 C.1/6 D.2/13 E.Not enough information to determine P(4)

Roll a 6-sided die once. What is P(roll a 4)? Assume equally likely outcomes and S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} A.1/2 B.1/4 C.1/6 D.2/13 E.Not enough information to determine P(4)

Guess the correlation A.r = B.r = C.r = D.r = E.r = r = 0.865

You recently found out that the country Vulgaria has 112 McDonald’s Restaurants. Please use the regression model to estimate how many Nobel Prize winners herald from Vulgaria (you can round to the nearest whole number). A.14 B.49 C.26 D.5 CountryNobel Prize Count McDonalds Count Austria11148 Czech Republic260 Denmark1399 Finland293 Greece248 Hungary376 Iceland13 Ireland562 Luxembourg06 Norway855 Portugal291 Slovakia210 Turkey0133 United States

 Group Learning  Contextual Learning  Activity Based Learning

 Daily (or frequent) short quizzes ◦ 5 minutes long ◦ Immediate feedback

 “Work-at-the-Board”

 Small homework assignments  Homework students can be successful on working by themselves  Homework problem complexity builds over a course as students gain confidence and become used to completing homework